Saturday, October 11, 2014

[For no reason other
than that I think it is beautiful, I am posting a recent cover of The New
Yorker above. I don’t know who the artist is; I think I’ve seen and liked their
work before. I really appreciate how this mystery illustrator captures and slightly
caricaturizes the female form. Also, the women they draw always have a chic
style and sturdy confidence. Call me a weirdo, but I’d like to think that these
ladies could carry on a good conversation, too. These are smart chicks, dude,
and they’re not afraid to show it!]

Saturday, September 20, 2014

On the Legalization of Cosplay
in the United States and How That Would Positively Impact Crime Rates in North
America

INTRODUCTION

The legalization of cosplay would reduce
crime by smashing an existing status quo where billions of taxpayer dollars are
spent and thousands of lives ruined in the pursuit of an unobtainable
objective.

Government resources that could be better
utilized elsewhere—including our nation’s local police departments—are misspent
trying to control and/or eradicate an activity the majority of Americans want
legalized: In October 2013, for the first time since Gallup began asking the
question in 1969, more Americans (58% of those polled) favored legalization of
cosplay.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Many of the movies (that
is, DVDs) I watch are via the blessed New York Public Library (NYPL), but
not so much from me wandering the stacks hoping to find what I want—to heck
with that! I’m a (self)important man; I have things to do, places to be!

Besides the Hamilton
Grange branch of the NYPL, on 145th Street—as awesome as it is—doesn’t
always have what I want.

But you can go to the NYPL’s website, and after
you register, you can place holds on DVDs—which is what I do!

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Ancient Astronaut Theory is the idea that “Space Gods” came to Earth, worked some of their
tech-so-advanced-it-looks-like-magic on some apes, jumpstarting their DNA
towards the big-brained critters that we are today.

This is a Venusian from an episode of"The Outer Limits."Venus has sulfuric acid rain and ishot enough on the surface to meltlead. What our planet will be one day.

The believers, like Erich von Däniken, the author of Chariots
of the Gods? (don’t forget the question mark!), add on that these hyper-intelligent,
galaxy-crossing beings used to return every now and then, and check up on us—helping
the Egyptians build the pyramids, the Incas with their Nazca Lines landing
strips and showing the Mayans how to invent TV.

I won’t go into that
stuff too much, because many others have covered it better,
but I am looking at this in a way I don’t think others have.

Monday, September 1, 2014

Six months of intense
and hellish training to be a prison guard to the young folks, that’s what: I
was in the bowels of the edjoomakashun system, lorded over by a series of
Dolores Umbridges—which thankfully in the long run, I was rejected for—

“Let’s use brutal, militaristic
techniques to keep the young’uns in line, to make them good little worker bees—oh,
there’s no jobs and poverty creates a toxic stress environment as well as cycle
of defeat? Not to mention the learned helplessness where folks say, ‘Why bother
to try and improve when the dice are loaded, the cards marked and the game is rigged right from the start?’ Well that’s not our problem….”

Basically it was like
dealing with the students of Mao’s Cultural Revolution: Obey or die!

Here’s the thing:
these Umbridges claim to “love the children,” but I believe they only do so in
the most abstract way….

But I’ve burned
enough bridges already…

One day I will go
into further detail—but today is not that day—today is September 1, and
it’s the start of the final quarter of 2014, and it’s a new page in my life.

Getting my ducks in a
row, looking forward, and NEVER giving up. The only way you’re going to stop me
is by chopping off my head—and then you better watch out: the Gypsy said if
that happens, my right hand with come after you…and avenge me.

Now, onto the movie
reviews! (Most of which will be very short; I just wanna get this one out of
the way—break the silence, and get back on track…)

Thursday, March 13, 2014

This winter was CRUEL—and
it smells like it might just return one
last time—and then there were all my personal hassles—which I have been
hinting at somewhat during my infrequent posts over the last 18 months….

But Big Bad Febz was
also an incredibly busy month for me: Got 47 day’s worth of work accomplished
in 28! I worked in a smelly warehouse, visited the Toy Fair, did this, did
that, did the other thing, did the right thing, and even more importantly:

I have been, after
much stress and worry, accepted into the NYC Teaching Fellows program,
and within less than a month, I will be in an inner city high school, first
assisting a teacher, then taking over a class myself!

Whoa!

I am SO excited and
nervous!

Suffice to say, some
changes may be on the horizon, but as of yet, what those changes could be are
as yet, unknown.

But hopefully I won’t
lapse back into the poor publishing schedule which plagued me recently…

Sunday, March 2, 2014

From On the Beach to The Road Warrior to Tomorrow,
When the War Began, Australia has figured prominently in cinematic
depictions of the events surrounding total war, including the use of
thermonuclear weapons.

Monday, February 10, 2014

The title of today’s
post is a “There goes Ivan spraining his arm while patting himself on the back”
pun.

You see, Rondo Hatton
(more about him in a moment; although if you’re a cinephile of any sort, and
you don’t recognize him, you are the ultimate loser and should never speak to
me again) will be making an appearance in Brooklyn.